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Subject: Re: [9fans] venti+fossil, the boot process, and 48-bit lba
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Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2003 16:07:06 -0400
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hi,

>> you could configure fdisk and prep into /boot, and have boot use them,
>> but perhaps the easiest change for you might be to stop 9load from
>> checking the values (temporarily) until something better is done.
>
> yes, this.  change 9load so that if the max disk address is 2^28,
> it doesn't sanity check the upper bounds in the partition table.

is someone changing 9load source centrally also? that way it would be
useful for other similar instances as well.

and, may be, if reqd, the sanity check could be changed from display-erro=
r-
and-exit to warn-and-proceed.

thanks
dharani